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December 2008
Newsletter- December 2008
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Film@Sarai
68 Pages
A Film by Sridhar Rangayan
Curated by Sonal Mehta
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Talk@Sarai
Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement
by Bhagwan Das
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Call for submissions
Typos in the Writing on the Wall
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Dear Readers,
This month we continue with our talk series on dalit issues. This talk among others is an event planned in collaboration between The Sarai Programme and Navayana Publications. Other than that we have our regular film screening and a call for submission for a new project initiated by the Sarai Media Lab.
Hope you will make yourselves available for the events and access the particulars announced.
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo@sarai.net
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Film@Sarai
68 Pages*
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
Length: 92 minutes
Cast: Moulli Ganguly, Joy Sengupta, Jayati Bhatia, Zafar Karachiwala, Uday Sonawane, etc.
Date: 5th December 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
About the Film:
>From the director of Gulabi Aaina and Yours Emotionally comes another hard hitting drama about marginalized people. Subverting the Bollywood film genre of song-dance and high drama, this film places characters ignored by Bollywood centerstage - a transsexual bar dancer, a prostitute, a gay couple - to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope, about being HIV+ and marginalized. A searingly honest film about five lives marked by pain and bound by hope - in 68 Pages of a counselor’s diary.
The film will be curated by Sonal Mehta, Director, Programme and Policy, Alliance India, a leading organization working with HIV and AIDS in the country.
*68 Pages will be screened at various venues in India and the U.S. as part of World Aids Week.
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Talk@Sarai
Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement by Bhagwan Das
Date: 11th December 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 3:30 pm
Bhagwan Das, 81, worked as a research associate with Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1956. In the 1960s, two decades before the Maharashtra government began to publish the writings and speeches of Ambedkar, Das edited, compiled and produced the four-volume Thus Spoke Ambedkar series under the imprint of Bhimpatrika Publications, Jullunder. Born in Jutogh, Shimla, in 1927, Das joined Ambedkar's Scheduled Caste Federation at the age of 16. Working for the Royal Indian Air Force as a radio officer during World War II, he dreamt of becoming a pilot but could not muster the Rs 5,000 that was required for training in London. Das then worked in the Labour Department following a chance meeting with Ambedkar in Shimla in 1943 when the latter was Labour Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. After his marriage, Das resumed his education, did an MA in History from Punjab University and LLB from Delhi University. He then practised as an advocate in the Supreme Court. In 1970, he attended the World Conference on Religion for Peace held in Kyoto as a Buddhist delegate. In August 1983, supported by a coalition of dalit organisations, Bhagwan Das gave a testimony on untouchability before the UN subcommission on human rights in Geneva. He subsequently addressed the 1984 World Conference on Religion and Peace at Nairobi, Kenya, much against the wishes of the official Indian delegation at the conference.
Das' first article appeared in Kranti, an Urdu newspaper from Lahore edited by Sant Ram of the Jat Pat Todak Mandal, in the 1940s. Das has since published in various journals including in the Economic and Political Weekly ("Moments in a History of Reservations", 28 Oct 2000). Some of Bhagwan Das' many books include:
Ambedkar on Gandhi and Gandhism. (Ed.)
Main Bhangi Hoon (Hindi)
Untouchables in the Indian Army
Mandal Commission and the Future of Backward Classes
Ravidasis and Balmikis of North India
Navayana is currently making a documentary film on this pioneering activist, publisher and scholar. A 15-minute excerpt from the film, where Das dwells on Ambedkar and Gandhi, will be screened ahead of Das' talk at Sarai.
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Call for Submission: for a new Media Lab Project
Typos in the Writing on the Wall
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Last date for Edition #1: January 15, 2009
Sarai Media Lab announces an open call for submissions to "Typos in the Writing on the Wall", a forum for experimenting and freestyling with media forms. We invite participants to our online platform, beginning with Edition #1 of "Typos in the Writing on the Wall". There will be an open call every couple of months for subsequent editions, from which we will curate selections for exhibitions, local and traveling events, open mics and spontaneous collaborations. Meanwhile, we will upload selected entries on the Sarai website
[http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1]
and on our blog [http://typosforum.wordpress.com/].
Call for submissions:
http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/call
Submission guidelines:
http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/submission-guidelines
Further queries write to typos [at] sarai.net
Contact: http://www.sarai.net/about-us/contact
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The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme,
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net
Info: dak@sarai.net.To subscribe: send a blank email to
newsletter-request@sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header.
Directions to Sarai: We are 10 minutes from Delhi University, and 5 mins. from the Civil Lines Metro Station.
[[CONTENTS]]
Film@Sarai
68 Pages
A Film by Sridhar Rangayan
Curated by Sonal Mehta
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Talk@Sarai
Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement
by Bhagwan Das
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for submissions
Typos in the Writing on the Wall
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Readers,
This month we continue with our talk series on dalit issues. This talk among others is an event planned in collaboration between The Sarai Programme and Navayana Publications. Other than that we have our regular film screening and a call for submission for a new project initiated by the Sarai Media Lab.
Hope you will make yourselves available for the events and access the particulars announced.
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo@sarai.net
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Film@Sarai
68 Pages*
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
Length: 92 minutes
Cast: Moulli Ganguly, Joy Sengupta, Jayati Bhatia, Zafar Karachiwala, Uday Sonawane, etc.
Date: 5th December 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 4:30 pm
About the Film:
>From the director of Gulabi Aaina and Yours Emotionally comes another hard hitting drama about marginalized people. Subverting the Bollywood film genre of song-dance and high drama, this film places characters ignored by Bollywood centerstage - a transsexual bar dancer, a prostitute, a gay couple - to tell their stories of pain and trauma, of happiness and hope, about being HIV+ and marginalized. A searingly honest film about five lives marked by pain and bound by hope - in 68 Pages of a counselor’s diary.
The film will be curated by Sonal Mehta, Director, Programme and Policy, Alliance India, a leading organization working with HIV and AIDS in the country.
*68 Pages will be screened at various venues in India and the U.S. as part of World Aids Week.
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Talk@Sarai
Ambedkar, Gandhi and Today's Dalit Movement by Bhagwan Das
Date: 11th December 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 3:30 pm
Bhagwan Das, 81, worked as a research associate with Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1956. In the 1960s, two decades before the Maharashtra government began to publish the writings and speeches of Ambedkar, Das edited, compiled and produced the four-volume Thus Spoke Ambedkar series under the imprint of Bhimpatrika Publications, Jullunder. Born in Jutogh, Shimla, in 1927, Das joined Ambedkar's Scheduled Caste Federation at the age of 16. Working for the Royal Indian Air Force as a radio officer during World War II, he dreamt of becoming a pilot but could not muster the Rs 5,000 that was required for training in London. Das then worked in the Labour Department following a chance meeting with Ambedkar in Shimla in 1943 when the latter was Labour Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. After his marriage, Das resumed his education, did an MA in History from Punjab University and LLB from Delhi University. He then practised as an advocate in the Supreme Court. In 1970, he attended the World Conference on Religion for Peace held in Kyoto as a Buddhist delegate. In August 1983, supported by a coalition of dalit organisations, Bhagwan Das gave a testimony on untouchability before the UN subcommission on human rights in Geneva. He subsequently addressed the 1984 World Conference on Religion and Peace at Nairobi, Kenya, much against the wishes of the official Indian delegation at the conference.
Das' first article appeared in Kranti, an Urdu newspaper from Lahore edited by Sant Ram of the Jat Pat Todak Mandal, in the 1940s. Das has since published in various journals including in the Economic and Political Weekly ("Moments in a History of Reservations", 28 Oct 2000). Some of Bhagwan Das' many books include:
Ambedkar on Gandhi and Gandhism. (Ed.)
Main Bhangi Hoon (Hindi)
Untouchables in the Indian Army
Mandal Commission and the Future of Backward Classes
Ravidasis and Balmikis of North India
Navayana is currently making a documentary film on this pioneering activist, publisher and scholar. A 15-minute excerpt from the film, where Das dwells on Ambedkar and Gandhi, will be screened ahead of Das' talk at Sarai.
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Call for Submission: for a new Media Lab Project
Typos in the Writing on the Wall
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Last date for Edition #1: January 15, 2009
Sarai Media Lab announces an open call for submissions to "Typos in the Writing on the Wall", a forum for experimenting and freestyling with media forms. We invite participants to our online platform, beginning with Edition #1 of "Typos in the Writing on the Wall". There will be an open call every couple of months for subsequent editions, from which we will curate selections for exhibitions, local and traveling events, open mics and spontaneous collaborations. Meanwhile, we will upload selected entries on the Sarai website
[http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1]
and on our blog [http://typosforum.wordpress.com/].
Call for submissions:
http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/call
Submission guidelines:
http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/typos-in-the-writing-on-the-wall-1/submission-guidelines
Further queries write to typos [at] sarai.net
Contact: http://www.sarai.net/about-us/contact
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[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]
_____________________________________
The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme,
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net
Info: dak@sarai.net.To subscribe: send a blank email to
newsletter-request@sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header.
Directions to Sarai: We are 10 minutes from Delhi University, and 5 mins. from the Civil Lines Metro Station.